A/N: Hey guys! Been a busy day so far… lots of homework… *sighs* but hey, what can you do, at least we're gonna have venison steak fajitas tonight :3 super stoked, stomach is also rumbling but I figured this is a better way to pass my health class than actually paying attention ;p

Disclaimer: Yup, nope.

Distaste

Vergil resisted the urge to lift his lip in disgust, this woman did think he was an idiot, that much he was sure of.

"Anthony." He said flatly, keeping eye contact until she blinked and broke the gaze, he could tell she was slightly unsettled by his flat gaze.

"That's a nice name, how are you doing Anthony?" she asked, sitting down next to him and slouching over so that she was eye to eye with him, it made the young half devil feel younger than he was, she didn't have to talk down to him.

"Fine." He replied, his tone still short, he didn't want to talk to her, he looked off to the side, feeling the comforting pulse of Yamato within his mind, it fed his anger, nourishing the flame, Vergil quickly tried to squash it, it did him no good to be angry right now.

"It's okay to talk Anthony." She said, squatting back off the couch, trying to make eye contact again, he glared at her.

"I know."

"You can talk to me you know." Susie pressed, Vergil caught a glimpse of Madeline and Mark standing just at the edge of his peripheral vision and he looked back at the social worker.

"Why." He said flatly and Susie blinked at him, surprised.

"Because it's not good to keep everything to yourself, it'll help us too, help us figure out what happened to your mom, your house." Vergil felt his shoulders tense up, thinking back to the smell of blood, the feeling of adrenalin in his veins, the sight of demons falling beneath his mother's smoking guns, hearing their death screams as he joined the fray and how futile it had been, despite how hard he had fought he just hadn't… hadn't been strong enough.

"Anthony?" he heard and he sighed and looked back up to see Madeline calling his adoptive name.

"Are you okay honey?" Susie asked, pulling his attention back to her and increasing his irritation.

"I'm fine." He said again, clenching his hands into fists, this wasn't like him, he didn't lose control over his emotions, that was Dante, he had to be the strong one, had to keep it together.

"Anthony." Madeline put a hand on his shoulder and he looked up at her, she looked worried and he looked back to the social worker.

"What happened?" Susie asked, and Anthony blinked, trying to think of what was okay to say. What wasn't going to reveal him?

"Some people came…" he paused "they… they killed my mom…" he said, fighting off tears as he thought of the moment… when that pain had struck his chest, when he had seen the light fade from his mother's eyes. The young half devil bit his lip.

"How, what happened?" he was prodded gently. He could see the officer and the social worker both taking notes on what happened.

"I… I didn't see much… I was hiding, my mom told me to hide, I did." It wasn't exactly a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either.

"Do you know why she told you to hide?" Vergil shook his head

"She just said there were bad people coming and that I needed to hide."

"Did you see the men?" this was the police officer, Vergil just shook his head, it wasn't a lie, he had seen no men but monsters instead.

"What happened next?" Now the social worker, she seemed to think that he would keep talking if she kept prodding gently, but the young half devil wanted to get out of this web of lies sooner rather than later, the less he had to remember for his story, the better.

"I came out of hiding and my mom… there was so much smoke, it made my head hurt." He said, though he didn't remember the fire, just laying there on the floor, feeling very, very cold… Madeline put a hand on his shoulder and he took comfort from the gesture, it reminded him of his mother, she used to do the same thing, often when trying to calm him and his brother, keep them from fighting so much.

"Just one more question for now Anthony." Susie said, the half devil could tell that she wanted to go over the information she had with the officer. He nodded, wanting to get out of this office too.

"Do you have a brother?" she asked and Vergil used everything he had not to flinch at the question.

"No…" he said, trying to tilt his voice up in a questioning way.

"Didn't have one when you were little or anything?" she asked Vergil shook his head, knitting his eyebrows together in what he hoped was a confused manner.

"Alright, I'm done for now, I won't bother you for a little while." She smiled though it did little to make the boy feel any better. She stood and gestured for the other adults in the room to follow her.

-The Boy in Blue-

In the break room she heaved a big breath of air.

"We've got our work cut out for us with this one." She said, looking at the notes in her hand. "He's lying but about what or how much, I don't know, he could just be afraid of what happened and not want to talk about it. We're still trying to make heads or tails of the records, whatever his mother was involved in, she knew what she was doing, it makes me scared for the little guy." She looked to Madeline "Do you mind keeping him for a little while longer? He seems fairly attached to you, he might just trust you enough to talk to you, let me know if he does?" Madeline nodded

"I can do that." Susie gave a tired smile

"Thank you, now I'd like to get him into a doctors office, we have no idea what his medical records are, or where or if they just burned with the house, we've found some school records so chances are good there are some medical ones somewhere but with how small he is and, is his hair naturally that color?" she asked and Madeline nodded

"He told me it was, said it's been that way his whole life." Susie made another note on her sheet,

"I wouldn't be surprised if there's some underlying medical issues, try and make an appointment for him please?"

"That's no problem."

"I know you said you weren't planning on staying in town for much longer but…"

"I don't mind," Madeline interrupted with a smile "It'll be my pleasure to help out."

A/N: Not a terribly exciting chapter but, I hope it's at least a little interesting?

Till next time,

-Winged Element